they say the two hardest things in software development is 1) naming things, 2) cache invalidation and 3) off by one bugs.<\/p>\n
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Amazon sells a product: amazon web services.<\/p>\n
What is it?<\/p>\n
It’s a bunch of software you can pay to use.<\/p>\n
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Google sells a product: google cloud platform.<\/p>\n
What is it?<\/p>\n
A bunch of software you can pay to use.<\/p>\n
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Microsoft sells a product: azure.<\/p>\n
What is it?<\/p>\n
A color.<\/p>\n
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I’ve been writing software for 40 years now, and I’ve seen a lot of things come and go. But I’ve noticed a trend towards the need to name things.<\/p>\n
In the good old days, we used to write software. We wrote functions that did things, and we strung them together into programs.<\/p>\n
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Now we actually have a name for the fact that we need to name everything: “Patterns.”<\/p>\n
A pattern isn’t an algorithm, it’s a word to explain that we categorize our algorithms.<\/p>\n
So there’s the this pattern, and the that pattern, and because people can’t just say “well, that’s not a good idea.” they instead had to name that concept and call it an anti-pattern.<\/p>\n
I think it’s all a bit silly and a waste of time given how hard it is to name things in the first place.<\/p>\n
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